Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-08-09

Truly the man who labors these day!
learns his bread by the sweat OF hi!
brow" and the rest of his anatomy.
Aside from the benefits to be derived
from an artesian we'll on college hill
such an improvement would still further
demonstrate the inexhaustible character
OF our water supply.
e. M. O'Brien has sold his interest in
what wes called the Powers seventy
acres on Mount Marty, Messrs Qaaruburg
d KELSEY, OF Vefmillion, being the pur.
chasers. These gentlemen are negotiat.
ing for other Yankton property.
DIR. James Roane has been appointed
one of the board of pension examiners
Tor Dakota by the pension bureau at
Washington. DR.. Roane will act as
surgical examiner for the hoard, for
which place he is particularly fitted.
Our people should not forget to labor
for the development of manufactures.
With Yankton's magnificent water
power it should become the leading
manufacturing city OF Dakota. Ours is
q stream that neve diminishes in volume
or force.
Louis and Frank Klotz, the musical
boys who have resided in Yankton for
two years, have gone to Omaha to re-.
main. This will not be welcome news
to the many Yankten people who delight
in tripping the light fantastic to good
music and that was the character of the
music of the Klotz band.
a dozen couples, old and young, of
Yankton's people boarded the 1850
Northwestern train this afternoon for
the shady shores of the Jim, where they
will linger until $50 this evening, with
lunch baskets, hammocks and row boats
for company. This arrangement OF
Northwestern trains is most convenient
for picnickers.
The wind of Sunday night, blew
straight against the body of the horse
which Mr.. Chase drives in his mail
wagon. .Tha horse was taken by sur
prls and in falling before the force of
the blast he became tangled up in his
own legs and feet and Mr.. Chase was
obliged to call up the neighbors to assist
the animal III rising.
By recent order from the department
of pensions at Washington, DIR. d, F.
Etter has been succeeded on the board
of pension examiners for the district by
DIR. James Roane. The board met and
reorganizsd to-day. DR.. Turkopp being
elected president, DR.. Van Velsor treas
urer, and DIR. Roane secretary. The
board is now ready for business,
Judge Eidridge, of this city, recently
received a letter relating the death of
Judge Lott s.. Bayliss, formerly receiver
OF the Yankton land office. Judge
Bayliss, Was esteemed by Yankton peo-
pie, aud this intelligence will be received
with sadness. The death occurred on
Friday last at the home of the deceased
in Michigan. He was in the seth yesr
of his life.
The storm of Sunday night extended
as far west as Niobrara, where the wind
blew harder than at Yankton and de-
mslished chimneys and roofs and
window glass was generally wrecked.
North Of Yanktor, in Yankton county,
the wind tore up hay and grain stacks.
blew over light buildings and stampeded
one large herd OF cattle. No rain fell at
any point during the storm and the air
was 80 heavy and dry in the day time,
as to cause cattle and horses to drink
an unusual quantity of water.
August storm periods, as predicted by
scientific qaacka, are:2 ID to 9th; 18th TO
18th; 18th to 31st. These storm periods
develop first in the vest and move east
ward. The dog days period is JON
~tinuous and Will stay with us until it
is time to put up coal stoves. Symptoms
of the autumnal equinox are predicted
for the closing days of August. The
weather sharp admonishes us: s.Look
out for much sustained heat in July and
August" This is the time OF the year
when the prophet is infallible. We
can see it without looking out.
Paul Hamann, editor of the Dakota
Post, is furnishing amusement for the
people of Broadway. Mr.. Hamann has
a tooth for jack rabbit steaks, which be
feeds with rabbit at every opportunity.
Yesterday a friend of his informed him
that there was q fine rabbit captive in
q steel trap OF his house and that if Paul
would go thither he could secure a feast.
He vent and finding q healthy pole cat
in the trap he returned again much dis
gusted. He says he did not go near the
trap. but there is an indescribable some
thing about his clothes that rather gives
the whole business away.
VIM. Leaning, who owns an orchard q
mile or more west of the CITY, Suffered
seriously from Monday mornings storm,
which blew down Q large number of his
trees. Since the blow he has gathered
fourteen bunches OF apples from the
ground beneath the trees. Mr.. lean
ing's fruit crop thlsIyear promised TO ex
Gel that Of any previous year, and his
efforts toward securing good fruit have
been eminently successful. This vista
tion of the elements rather d~iscouragel
him. He has resided in Dakota sixteer
years, and has never in that time ex
perienced q sonth wind as strong as thu
Of Monday morning.
Jim Thompson, the Santee Indiar